Listen "Episode 122: Optical Illusions"
Episode Synopsis
[This episode originally aired on May 23, 2023] Today’s topic is perception, how we see our world • each of us sees things a little bit differently, and optical illusions highlight this fact • in one well known optical illusion, some people see a chalice, while other people see two women facing each other • which is it? • you might see a chalice when everyone around you sees two women • the problem begins when we take our version as solid and real, when we clamp down on our particular way of viewing the world and close our mind to any other possible options • it's humbling to recognize that everything we see is from our particular point of view, but there's also something very liberating in recognizing the power of our perceptions: there's a freedom in knowing that how we perceive things is not fixed • when we begin to see through this pattern of assumptions being taken as reality, we see openings, we see possibilities • there's room to connect with others because we don't start with the assumption that they're in the same world as we are • we recognize that we're in different perceptual realities, and we can use that understanding to connect at a deeper level.
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